wrote forty-seven books in his career. In 1959 he received an Award of Merit from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for his work (Aldous Huxley-Biography).In the 1950s Huxley wrote the Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell. These novels deal with the inebriated states produced by hallucinogens. They describe the alteration in sensory perception that Huxley experienced with mescaline (LSD-My Problem Child). The rock group the Doors named themselves after the Doors of Perception (Its Online-Aldous Huxley). Huxley had become a guru for hippies in California and began to use LSD (Aldous (Leonard) Huxley). Huxley thought hallucinogens led to a deeper understanding of religious and mystical content. He and his wife experimented with LSD and psilocybin. He didnt like to refer to them as drugs because he believed in the importance of agents producing visionary experience in human evolution (LSD-My Problem Child). Huxley continued his drug use and experiments until his death. While lying on his deathbed with terminal throat cancer, Huxley asked his wife to inject 100 mmg of LSD into him, sending him to a peaceful death (LSD-My Problem Child). Huxley died in Los Angeles on November 22, 1963, the same day as the assassination of John F. Kennedy (Aldous (Leonard) Huxley).Aldous Huxley was not merely a successful writer; he was a complex person whose ideas and works influenced many people. Huxley gained a reputation as a witty and cynical writer (Philosophers Corner Presents: Aldous Huxley). His style, a combination of dazzling dialogue, surface cynicism and social criticism, made him a fashionable writer in his time (Aldous (Leonard) Huxley). Huxley influenced many other writers to publish novels about futuristic or Utopian societies as well (Aldous (Leonard) Huxley). He was a guru for California hippies and had an influence on the rock group the Doors, who named themselves after his novel The Doors of Perception (Its Onli...
